The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-13

every night And turning over in bed, he
was soon again wrapped in slumber. AT
the sound OF my voice the lights were inn
mediately extinguished. and intense silence
prevailed, the brightness and noise to be
again renewed shortly after | decided
! that | would finish my slumbers in a less
uucanny place, and Harvesting my horse,
by $3.50 a. IN. was leaving that house with
its ghostly visitors behind me-"
Upon the Tarver plantation, in Baker
county, there is "A negro, giant in height,
and OF almost superhuman strength. His
| feet are large in proportion to his stature,
and it being impossible TO purchase any
shoes large enough for him at the stores,
they have to he made to order, at n great
outlay Of leather and cost He~ puts his
large feet to excellent use, being a rapid pc
destrian. He frequently leaves the plauta-
tlpu to foot it to town at the same time that
some other party departs behind a fast horse,
and when the driver reaches Albany, a dis
taEce of over twenty miles, he finds the walk
er already in the city. He is fond of doing
acts of great strength and proves, and
goss by the name of Sam Sata. Between
the Tarver plantation and town there lies
strides toward Albany, Sam neared the
graveyard, and he heard some one in a loud
voice crying, Get up, get up" repeatedly.
Af he reached the place he saw an old man
apparently driving pair Of white horses,
and calling out to them in a loud voice.
Upon approaching the horses and driver the
trio suddenly disappeared. There was Il
sudden rush of air past him, and all was
still. No sign could be seen of either horses
on driver. Sam now allows some distance
to lie between him and that resting place of
the dead in his pedestrian tours to Albany.
Lawrenceville, Ga, special to Atlanta
Constitution: Saturday afternoon one of
the boldeSt and most daring pieces of devil
try that ever transpired within the limits of
this good county occurred, William Ken
nedy, William billiard and the Haney boys
being the prime movers in the robbery and
brutality, and w. j. Nash, known among
the horse jockeys As Lying Bill Nash," the
victim of this quartette. Nash was peddling
chickens and eggs, and had been talking
with this party in town, and told them he
was going down in Ben Smiths district that
afternoon. 1t seems that one Of them had
at one time snapped horses with Nash, when
he gave him note as boot for $50. II is
reported Nash got the best of the trade and
the other contracting parties wanted Nash to
knock off some of the note. Nash refused.
This was inside the corporate limits. The
next scene was outside. These parties
watched Nash to learn when he left town.
They soon soon saw him moving i'll the
direction of Ben Smiths and they followed,
keeping some distance behind, until Nash
reached dense strip of woods two miles
from town. The pursuing party hurried
up their chargers and overlook Nash, in
forming him, i'll no uncertain tones, that
they intended to kill him. Toward accom-
plishing this end, billiard ran up TO Nash's
buggy, grabbed and stopped his horse;
Haney grabbed Nash, jerked him out of the
buggy on to the rocky ground and stamped
him. The other two watched Nash's team
while Haney ard billiard searched Nash's
pockets. They found pocketbook, $40 In
money and the boot note. They took the
money and book and gave back
Nash his note, but credit had
been entered upon it before it reached
Nashs pockets. They then threw
Nash on the ground, grabbed him by the
legs and started into the woods, dragging
him feet-foremost, threatening to kill him.
They had not proceeded far, when Mr.. John
Flowers came up, on his way home, when.
on seeing him, the brutality ceased. Nash
got in his buggy and came back to town
with bruises all over his face, head and
body. He made no resistance whatever
He believed his time to die had come, and
that his horse trading was verify thing of
the past. He swore out warrant for the
parties fer robbery and an assault with intent
to murder. They have not yet been arrested
Nash is getting on very well.